I hope you've enjoyed my history series
A Gwailo's View of Han Zi ! A Blog featuring my experiments with Han Zi and digital typographic art and articles on Chinese derived characters. Also some articles on Chinese characters in general and their use of multiple Asian languages.
Friday, 28 September 2012
Tuesday, 25 September 2012
Saturday, 22 September 2012
More History Zi
Thursday, 20 September 2012
The 3 History Jis
There are several words and characters for History in Chinese.
Here's 3 of them that are very similar in sound although written with different characters.
What's the reason for this?
Bamboo Books!
Well books made of long bamboo or wooden strips.
Side bound paper books and scrolls of paper or silk were a later development.
Saturday, 15 September 2012
Playing with Red 3
SVG generated in Inkscape then imported as a PNG into GIMP.
Try this technique yourself! If it proves useful and you have more luck than me selling a design please consider coming back and using the paypal to tip me?
Thursday, 13 September 2012
Playing with Red 2
Another possible modification of Chi Aka .
If you havnt read the prior post I started out with a SVG generated using Unihan code entered in the Inkscape program using Control u plus the unihan plus enter.
If you havnt read the prior post I started out with a SVG generated using Unihan code entered in the Inkscape program using Control u plus the unihan plus enter.
I changed the stroke or outline to Orange and then added two filters.
The latest version on Inkscape has filters and plugins .
Now experiment yourself!
Monday, 10 September 2012
Playing with Red
I've been playing with Inkscape again.
In Inkscape you can generate a character by typing Control U plus the Unihan.
I did so with the character CHI aka RED
then I converted the object to paths so I could alter the nodes and shapes.
This needs another tweaking but you can see what I'm aiming for ?
A SVG that can be turned into a jpg or png or other format and look more like brush work. And there are other things you can do once you have the SVG generated. See the next post! and oh if like me you can't afford Illustrator chekc out Inkscape an OPEN SOURCE program.
In Inkscape you can generate a character by typing Control U plus the Unihan.
I did so with the character CHI aka RED
then I converted the object to paths so I could alter the nodes and shapes.
This needs another tweaking but you can see what I'm aiming for ?
A SVG that can be turned into a jpg or png or other format and look more like brush work. And there are other things you can do once you have the SVG generated. See the next post! and oh if like me you can't afford Illustrator chekc out Inkscape an OPEN SOURCE program.
Saturday, 8 September 2012
Mi Fu Calligraphy
Mi Fu was a famous Song dynasty painter but also a calligrapher.
If you've studied Chinese painting at all you've seen one of his landscapes composed of dots of rich dense dark ink .
He was also a noted calligrapher.
If you've studied Chinese painting at all you've seen one of his landscapes composed of dots of rich dense dark ink .
He was also a noted calligrapher.
Here's a sample of his calligraphy to study.
Thursday, 6 September 2012
SINI When Chinese meets Arabic.
Arabic is usually written with a pen and sometimes with a brush.
The Hui Muslims of China had the cultural dilemma of using and respecting both Arabic script and Chinese characters. This lead to some interesting fusions of Arabic letters with Chinese style brush work known as Sini. Enjoy my selection.
The Hui Muslims of China had the cultural dilemma of using and respecting both Arabic script and Chinese characters. This lead to some interesting fusions of Arabic letters with Chinese style brush work known as Sini. Enjoy my selection.
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